The selfie has emerged as one of the defining modes of self-expression of the smartphone era. Sometimes, it seems like half of all photos uploaded to Facebook or Instagram each […]
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Isn’t this the craziest, twistiest international borderline you’ve ever seen? Unless you’ve studied the hyper-enclaved border zone of Cooch Behar [1], between India and Bangladesh, it probably is. But why […]
Imagine if no one knows what your illness is, or if it is mistreated by the medical community. How much worse is it, when treatment is possible, but it is prevented or delayed by ignorance.
Like many doting parents, I post about my son on Facebook, enjoying the few years I have left before he gets veto power. I don’t put up anything negative or […]
“What we’re seeing here, this guy is the Leonardo da Vinci—the Albert Einstein—of tennis.”
When Jaleesa Martin brought her seven-month-old child, Messiah, to the Cocke County Chancery Court in August, she was waging a battle with her son’s father for rights to his last […]
A site called Not All Like That (NALT) has been launched for Christians who support LGBT civil rights, as a companion project to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign that launched in 2010. […]
As much as I would like to argue that fathers’ biological commitment to pregnancy is very little, they do go through some changes.
The same color illusion demonstrates how human observations in science can be inaccurate.
I have found people that have overcome adversity and overcome the setbacks quickly are the ones that succeed in the long term.
Kirobo, a robot whose name is derived from the Japanese words for “hope” and “robot,” has made its first appearance at the International Space Station.
Many successful networks (biological or non-biological) experience breakpoints—instances in which more growth is impossible. Consider the story of 29 reindeer on St. Matthew Island, a narrow piece of land located […]
Well, it depends on what you mean by science. There was a panel at the meeting of the American Political Science Association on the (alleged?) outrage of the “Coburn Amendment.” […]
Nominated for an INDEX Award, David Swann’s ABC Syringe changes color when it’s exposed to air, thus providing a visual alert that it may be unsafe to use. The device could save more than a million lives each year.
Brooke Martin’s iCUPooch, which combines video and dog treats, is one of ten finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
Does great art last because it is great or is it great because it lasts? Do works find a place in the canon by familiarity, like a ubiquitous tune you […]
After over a decade of research, biotech startup Bionym is ready to go public with Nymi, a bracelet that uses the unique electrical activity produced by the wearer’s heart as identification.
Oxford University researchers have discovered a protein that prevents genes from adapting to differing levels of light. Suppressing this protein in mice caused their body clocks to adjust much faster.
Honda is using existing vehicle-to-vehicle systems to create a network in which data broadcast and received by both cars and pedestrians will help prevent accidents.
We have to take it upon ourselves, as a society, and not wait for somebody else to solve this for us.
As Terence McKenna tells us, we are already magical creatures.
I think big changes can happen very fast if there’s a critical mass.
Mentors can steer you away from the kinds of mistakes that are going to make you waste a year or two of your life.
The massive storm that wrapped itself around the planet in 2010-2011 seems to have dredged up water ice from an invisible lower atmospheric layer, according to NASA researchers.
A team of California scientists combined two ingredients commonly used in firefighting into an all-natural temporary spray gel that outperformed other coatings in lab tests.
What does Bill Nye, aka, “The Science Guy” have in common with Snooki, the reality TV star?
The building has been blamed for melting the plastic on a parked car, setting store carpets on fire, and shattering tiles. Believe it or not, it’s the second structure architect Rafael Viñoly has built that has this “feature.”
The Ohio city had never experienced an earthquake before the 2010 opening of a wastewater injection well. All 109 earthquakes that occurred in the ensuing 12 months now appear to be linked to the well, says a new study.
As part of last year’s UN Rio+20 Summit, a group of financial institutions are looking into ways to put monetary value on natural resources and add incentives and penalties for their preservation or destruction.
Shengren, Junzi, Ruxue: The Chinese World is Coming Back in Full Circle “…the creator, when he arises, always finds himself overwhelmingly outnumbered by the inert uncreative mass…” – Arnold J. […]